Archives - 11 June 2014, Wednesday

Learning Rails the Zombie Way If you’re new to Rails and want to give it a try, then head over to RailsForZombies.org . Rails for Zombies is a free online course that provides you five labs, each with a short video followed by a series of exercises where you get to code Rails immediat...

“A Game of Startups” by Sean Schofield RubyNation , the DC-hosted event for the local software community, concluded last weekend to bring the seventh annual conference to a close. Over 270 attendees quickly sold out the venue, and helped make RubyNation 2014 a blast for all who could ...

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“A Game of Startups” by Sean Schofield RubyNation , the DC-hosted event for the local software community, concluded last weekend to bring the seventh annual conference to a close. Over 270 attendees quickly sold out the venue, and helped make RubyNation 2014 a blast for all who could ...

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We’re incredibly excited about the new Swift programming language announced by Apple at this year’s WWDC. As a way of experimenting, we’ve begun looking into what it would be like if we rewrote Liftoff , our command line Xcode project generation/configuration tool, in Swift.

I went to see X-Men: Days of Future Past last weekend. While having a heated discussion about the logic behind the time travel in the movie with fellow Rocketeer Lucas Galego, we realized that Git provides a great analogy for time travel. So here you have it, the new X-Men movie expla...

Rails Girls - Sydney July 11-12, 2014 Hello world! Rails Girls comes to Sydney! During the free two-day workshop we'll dive into the magical world of Ruby on Rails. This time around, we are offering three tracks: For beginners: the regular Rails Girls tutorial For not so beginners: Ra...

Since there is no algorithmic method of finding the highest level at which a domain may be registered for a particular top-level domain (the policies differ with each registry), the only method is to create a list of all top-level domains and the level at which domains can be register...

list of useful vim plugins for ruby In this post I want to show you some vim plugins that are true productivity booster for every Ruby programmer. 1. Vim-Rails Vim-Rails is must for every Rails developer working with Vim. Here's what I've found useful: Editing Jumping from views ...

Magmaconf , Mexico’s premier mobile and modern web development conference, was held in beautiful Manzanillo last week. The annual event, hosted by Spree Commerce Certified Premier Partners Crowd Interactive , was a huge success! Attendees from all over the world, including Github, Rac...

Upcoming RubyMotion 3.0 will add support for Android. You will be able to build and run your apps in the Android emulator by running `rake emulator`, or on a USB-­connected Android device running `rake device`. To prepare and sign builds for a Google Play submission, you run `rake rel...

How do you choose the right libraries for your Rails app? Posted by justinweiss on June 10, 2014 — 0 comments Angular vs Ember. RSpec vs Minitest. Haml vs Slim vs ERB. You have so many choices to make when you start a new project. There are vocal defenders on each side. And soon you r...

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This is used for methods in Buffer that need to be very fast, and take a lot of boolean parameters that are known at compile-time. Instead of passing the parameters in normally, a separate method is defined for every possible combination of those parameters; these are then called usin...

June 6th, 2014 Rails and Sinatra learn to share, Code Climate make a case for Protocol Buffers, read up on HTTP API design, and dat science. June 3rd, 2014 This week we talk about the brand new RSpec 3 and Git 2, but also how to use bower-rails instead of JavaScript gems, JSON respons...

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Last September, we opened an office in Raleigh , NC. Jason moved down from the Boston office, and I moved back to the Triangle after a tour of Atlanta, Charlotte, and Boston. We couldn’t wait to get involved with the fast-growing tech scene, enjoy the small-town feel, and settle into ...

is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distri...

Command Line Reporter 3.3.2 Released Posted by wbailey on June 10, 2014 — 0 comments This release fixes a pesky bug where inheritance was broken for column colors. Check out the wiki to see examples of nicely formatted tables. As always the gem is available on rubygems.org with source...

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Setup Wizards and Custom Container Controllers in RubyMotion Posted by FluffyJack on June 10, 2014 — 0 comments Container controllers, such as UINavigationController or UITabBarController are the core navigation mechanism for many of our applications. The UIKit framework provides us w...

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oedipus_lex version 2.3.1 has been released! Published 2014-06-09 @ 17:26 Oedipus Lex is a lexer generator in the same family as Rexical and Rex. Oedipus Lex is my independent lexer fork of Rexical. Rexical was in turn a fork of Rex. We’ve been unable to contact the author of rex in o...

I wrote a book on Rails which a lot of people praised and a book on Ember which seems to have become Google's number one autocomplete suggestion for my name. But I also make products that are fun. Here's a video from my latest product , in which I model an anime robot in 3D using Thre...

A few months ago my colleague Josh Steiner wrote a comprehensive post on How We Test Rails Applications , detailing the different types tests we write and the various technologies that go with them. In this follow up, we will take a closer look at thoughtbot’s testing workflow. We use...